Oh for Heaven's sake--how do you search for children's books, specifically, on Google

[Alana in Canada]

Never mind trying to divide that inot biographies, autobiographies, history, etc.
Very frustrating!

I liked the old paper card catalogue!:eek:

[Mrs Mungo]

I usually just search on a book-related site like amazon. That's easier. Everything I search on google seems to lead to po*rn.

[Alana in Canada]

Google Books--the title bar wouldn't include the whole title.

Just heard about it today.:D

[Alana in Canada]

btt

[Dawn E]

to some degree. Anyway, if you enter a book like Alice in Wonderland, the subject is "juvenile fiction." You can click on these subject words which are in blue, and a list of books in this category will come up. Then you just have to make sure to select "full view" to get a list of all the books that are offered in completion. I assume that if you went to the advanced search and entered juvenile fiction, you would get the same list.

You've probably figured this out for yourself :) but just thought I'd share. It was rather infuriating to decipher.

[Alana in Canada]

Well, hopefully that will help! Thanks. I was typing in Kids books or childrens books--and I was getting pages of pages of books about Children's books. Not surprising when I think about it.

[Dawn E]

the subject "readers" brings up a lot of classics like Black Beauty, Ivanhoe, Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare, Swiss Family Robinson, etc.

[Alana in Canada]

oooh, good one. Thanks. I'm off to look.

[Dawn E]

And the McGuffey readers! At least I have found the fourth and fifth readers so far. I am just going through the search results for "readers" still and haven't tried to search just for "McGuffey" yet. This is an invaluable resource! Thanks again to Myrtle for bringing it to my attention!

[Alana in Canada]

What's wrong with me?

I got 146 results for Readers--but not one McGuffey or Swiss Family Robinson or Lamb's Shakespeare. Crikey. It just doesn't like me.

[Dawn E]

Try this link
http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Readers%22&lr= (http:http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Readers%22&lr=//)

[Dawn E]

not sure why that didn't work. Search for Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys: Being a Second Wonder-book. This is by Hawthorne and will probably bring up several hits. Look for the first one that has "readers" as it's subject and click "readers." This is how I went to that subject instead of typing it in. Fickle beast, this Google books. :) Hope that helps...it gave over a thousand results for me.

[Alana in Canada]

I appreciate it, I really do, but the link didn't work.

[Alana in Canada]

oooh--interesting. Some books have "subject headings" and some do not! Veeeeery interesting. OK. Looking.....

[LibrarianMom]

I swear by WorldCat.org. If you go to their advanced search page (http://worldcat.org/advancedsearch), down towards the bottom you can limit your search by Audience to Juvenile or non-Juvenile. Once you find a book, you can see what libraries near you have a copy. They have great list management tools as well.

If you are using Google Books, you may have some success when you combine the word juvenile with whatever topic you are searching. Sometimes though, as you found out, you find items that just mention juvenile instead of juvenile books. That's because Google Books does a search of the full text of the book when the entire text is available. Google Books is great when you just need to look at a little bit of a book and don't want to purchase or borrow, but for reading, I really like to hold it in my hand.

LibrarianMom